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Evbn
14y ago
For stock, at least, you can exactly pick and choose which individual shares you are selling, UNLESS you are also buying at a similar time. That would be a "wash sale" and LIFO is Required in that case.
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What stops a state from taxing your Mt God account? Or will you store $100k of BTC on your laptop?
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Making a credible threat to retire is a legitimate way to negotiate higher pay at a single employer, if you are more valuable than your replacement.
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4%? Wow. My employee health insurance is $10k for 1 insured, $20k for family, per year. I would love that to be close to 4%. Also, employers often pay office rent for employees. And freelancers spend unpaid time doing marketing/sales to get
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Mortgages are so cheap now, though, that housing costs so much less per month than it did 7 years ago.
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In part it seems to be because US is less communal. If I make X and you make X-Y, at the same company, maybe they can't afford to pay us both X, but then ...
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What one thing is that? Writecodeeatgourmetfoodsellstock?
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Note this is the same fallacious thinking and biased observation that believes gay == flamboyant/effeminate, southern US == stupid, suit == powerful, etc.
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And individuals get caught in the middle. No one acts independently.
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If someone here would stand up and say the Perl is a valid computer language but AAVE is not a valid human language, my head would explode.
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So can having a black name or black skin. It is a bug in our society, and acting white is a workaround, not a fix.
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"She is a descriptivist, like all linguists." Is that statement descriptivist or prescriptivist? ;-)
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"Aficionado" != "scholar", which might resolve your confusion.
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How do you do a corpus study on stress ? Audio/Video, I guess.
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Watch The Wire, through at least Season 1. Those guys ain't dumb. Most of the AAVE speakers are villains, though.
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When you can't spell a word consistently that you use eight times in one post --the most important word in your post-- we don't give much weight to your guesses as to who can spot inconsistencies in usage.
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Chaucer would faint if he were forced to read this barely intelligible creole you call "English".
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Or just read a book on the topic. Many of them are written in SE.
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Your description matches every language just as well. English is a nonsensical mess spoken by fools who couldn't keep their German, Latin, and Greek separate.
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U is logically parallel to I, and is accepted in (India) Indian English.
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I stopped reading at "I am tire", as you have shown yourself to be worthlessly illiterate.
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You sound far stupider than someone speaking Ebonics, and all else equal, I would certainly hire an intelligent and peceptive Ebonics speaker and than someone who displays muddled thinking in grammatical SE.
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With out a control group made up of non-HR people, this study doesn't show what you think it does.
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And billions of dollars.
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How is driving a luxury car a legitimate business expense? The IRS should be cracking down on that fraud, and only allow deductions for the value of a basic functional vehicle.
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More likely they should change the loophole so that lease is treated like a sale (with some reasonable pro rating), since it basically is.
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They are matching their class of competition (luxury cars) not enticing people to upgrade from Volt.
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There is no consumer risk, there is only the price, since Musk is cosigning the guarantee.
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Why? He negotiated some funds from the state. They aren't insuring his entire business.
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But it also leaves a whole lot of merit on the floor with the demerits.
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